Ochsner Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility is certified as a Medicare facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1985-01-24. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (504) 314-4249 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Ochsner Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 5 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (5★), Staffing (5★), and Quality of Resident Care (3★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 86.7/100, placing it #1179 of 14703 facilities nationally and #6 of 266 in Louisiana. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Ochsner Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility receives a reported average of 7 hours 7 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 1 hour 43 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 2 hours 55 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 30 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 6 hours 20 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 5 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 26.5%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $8,186. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $8,186, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 19.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Ochsner Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility ranks 1179th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 86.7/100), placing it in the top 10% nationwide. Within LA, it ranks 6th out of 266 nursing homes. In Jefferson, it ranks 1st out of 2 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 1st of 2. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #163 nationally and RN hours rank #373 nationally (#5 in LA). Our composite quality score of 86.7/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Jefferson, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/louisiana/jefferson/